Future Anterior
Editor: Jorge Otero-Pailos
An international point of reference for the critical examination of historic preservation
Future Anterior approaches historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry, rigorous scholarship, and theoretical analysis. The journal is an important international forum for the critical examination of historic preservation, spurring challenges of its assumptions, goals, methods, and results. As the first journal in American academia devoted to the study and advancement of historic preservation, it provides a much-needed bridge between architecture and history.
The journal also features provocative theoretical reflections on historic preservation from the point of view of art, philosophy, law, geography, archeology, planning materials science, cultural anthropology, and conservation.
Future Anterior is essential reading for anyone interested in historic preservation and its role in current cultural debates.
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Thordis Arrhenius and Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Editorial: The Scandinavian Welfare State and Preservation"
Dag Nilsen, "The Cathedral of Nidaros: Building a Historic Monument"
Kristin B. Aavitsland, "From Nationalism to Cosmopolitan Classicism: Henry Fett’s Concept of Cultural Capital"
Harry Fett, "Document: Continuity (1949)"
Victor Edman, "Sigurd Curman’s Restorations: Swedish Heritage in a Modern Context"
Sigurd Curman, "Document: Principles of Restoration: Examples and Desiderata (1906)"
Hélène Svahn Garreau, "The Political Instrumentality of Heritage: The Swedish Welfare State and the National Heritage Board"
Thordis Arrhenius, "Preservation and Protest: Counterculture and Heritage in 1970s Sweden"
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, "Book Review: Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption, and the Welfare State"
Mikael Olsson, "Artist Intervention: Frösakull in Six Years"
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Lydia Kallipolit, "Dry Rot: The Chemical Origins of British Preservation"
Adam Lauder, "Biopolitical Landscapes: The Preservation Tactics of Percy Nobbs"
Martino Stierli, "Preservation Parade: The Mediatization of the Lieb House into a Monument"
Andrew M. Shanken, "Preservation and Creation: Alfonso Rubbiani and Bologna"
Alfonso Rubbiani, "The Houses of the Bourgeoisie (1879)"
Catherine Ingraham, "Book Review: What Is Posthumanism?"
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Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Introduction: Historic Preservation in the Americas"
Alfredo Conti, "Against Cosmopolitanism: Historic Preservation and the Construction of Argentinean Identity"
Lauro Cavalcanti, "The Role of Modernists in the Establishment of Brazilian Cultural Heritage"
José Pessôa, "The Telephone on the Eighteenth-Century Table: How Brazilian Modern Architects Conceived the Preservation of Historic City Centers"
Lucio Costa, "Document: Necessary Documentation (1937)"
Enrique X. de Anda Alanís, "The Preservation of Historic Architecture and the Beliefs of the Modern Movement in Mexico, 1914–1963"
Louise Noelle, "José Villagrán and Enrique del Moral: Pioneers in the Defense of Heritage"
José Villagrán García, "Document: Architecture and Monument Restoration (1967)"
Michael Holleran, "Book Review: The Once and Future New York:Historic Preservation and the Modern City"
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Mari Lending, "Landscape versus Museum: J. C. Dahl and the Preservation of Norwegian Burial Mounds"
Mark Jarzombek, "Horse Shrines in Tamil India Reflections on Modernity"
Renata Codello and Joanna Dezio. "Carlo Scarpa's Monument to the Partisan Woman"
Jorge Tárrago Mingo, "Preserving Rivera and Kahlo: Photography and Reconstruction"
Camillo Boito, "Restoration in Architecture: First Dialogue"
Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Morphing Lincoln Center"
Enrique Ramirez, "Bloody Old Britain: O. G. S. Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life"
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Paul Williams, "Going Critical: On the Historic Preservation of the World's First Nuclear Reactor"
Mia Geijer, "Objectivity and Aesthetics: The Problem of Stucco in Swedish Conservation, 1949–1969"
Julián Esteban-Chapapría, "The Conservation of Spain's Architectural Heritage: A Balance of Three Crucial Decades, 1929–1958"
"Spanish Law Regarding Defense, Conservation, and Expansion of the National Artistic Treasure (1933)"
"Spanish Decree on the Protection of Castles (1949)"
Caterina Borelli, "'We will do it ourselves': Selma Al Radi on the Restoration of the 'Amiriya Complex, Yemen'"
James Conlon, "Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation"
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Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Special Issue on the Preservation of Soviet Heritage"
Barry Bergdoll, "Foreward"
Jean-Louis Cohen, "Preserving Modernism: A Russian Exception?"
Natalie Dushkina, "Heritage at Risk: The Fate of Modernist Buildings in Russia (1933)"
Boris Kirikov and Anna Vallye, "The Leningrad Avant-Garde and Its Legacy"
Margarita Shtiglits and Anna Vallye, "Erich Mendelsohn's Red Banner Factory and Saint Petersburg's Industrial Architecture"
Anke Zalivako, "A Critique of the Preservation of Moscow's Planetarium"
Jean-Louis Cohen, "Le Corbusier's Centrosoyuz in Moscow"
Jean-Louis Cohen, "Soviet Legal Documents on the Preservation of Monuments"
Richard Anderson, "The USSR's 1948 Instructions for the Identification, Registration, Maintenance, and Restoration of Architectural Monuments under State Protection"
"1973 Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: On the Protection and Use of Historic and Cultural Monuments"
Richard Anderson, "Taking Stock: Documenting Russia's Modern Heritage"
Letter to the Editor
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Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Preservation's Anonymous Lament"
Panayotis Tournikiotis, "Le Corbusier, Giedion, and the Villa Savoye: From Consecration to Preservation of Architecture"
Jamal J. Elias , "(Un)making Idolatry: From Mecca to Bamiyan"
Catherine Ingraham, "Takings"
Juan Calatrava, "Leopoldo Torres Balbds: Architectural Restoration and the Idea of "Tradition" in Early Twentieth-Century Spain"
Mario Carpo, "The Postmodern Cult of Monuments"
Manuel J. Martín-Hernández, "Architecture from Architecture: Encounters between Conservation and Restoration"
Franceses von Habsburg, Albert Heta, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Dinko Peracic, François Roche, Andreas Ruby, and Mark Wigley, "Debate: Preservation, Contemporary Art, and Architecture"
Christopher Long, "Selected Writings on Architecture. Preservation, and the Built Environmment and Architekturgeschichte und kulturelles Erbe 86 Aspekte der Baudenkmalpflege in Ostmitteleuropa"
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Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Conservation Cleaning/Cleaning Conservation"
Patrick Ciccone, "Space, Time, and Preservation"
Reto Geiser and Martino Stierli, "Architecture Officielle Maudite"
Adrian von Buttlar, "Berlin's Castle Versus Palace"
Laurence Kanter, "The Reception and Non-Reception of Cesare Brandi in America"
Frank G. Matero, "Loss, Compensation, and Authenticity"
Cesare Brandi, "Postscript to the Treatment of Lacunae"
Randall F. Mason, "Exhibition Review: Robert Moses and the Modern City"
John Stubbs, "Book Review: A Global History of Architecture"
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Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Chance Architecture"
Marissa Marvelli, "Consensus or Conflict? The Power of Ideology Critique in Historic Preservation"
Andrew Leach, "Libido Operandi or Conflict: Tafuri on Historic Preservation and Historiography"
Joan Ganau, "Invention and Authenticity in Barcelona's Barri Gotic"
Andrew Herscher, "Counter-Heritage and Violence"
Albrecht Barthel, "The Paris Studio of Constantin Brancusi: A Critique of the Modern Period Room"
Inge Bertels and Pieter Martens, "Defunct Defenses: Antwerp's Sixteenth-Century Fortifications"
Aron Vinegar, "Viollet-le-Duc and Restoration in the Future Anterior"
Robert Kirkbride, "Book Review: Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City"
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Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Creative Agents"
Mersedeh Jorjani, "Forces Beyond Our Control: Examining the Political Edge in Preservation"
Jukka Jokilehto, "Preservation Theory Unfolding"
Lei Gao and Marc Treib, "Making and Remaking the Yuanmingyuan"
Florian Urban, "From Periodical Obsolescence to Eternal Preservation"
Jennifer Cohoon McStotts, "The Second Fall of the Berlin Wall: Examining the Hildebrandt Memorial at Checkpoint Charlie"
Laura A. Lenss, "Capturing the Next Shift: The Mapping of Meaning onto the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia"
Fares el-Dahdah, "Lucio Costa, Preservationist"
Ricardo Abuauad, "Conservation in Central Santiago: The Diego Portales University Infrastructure Plan and the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design Building"
Kate Orff, "Book Review: Design with Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage"
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Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Historic Provocation: Thinking Past Architecture and Preservation"
Jessica Williams, "Theories Towards a Critical Practice"
David Karmon, "Renaissance Strategies to Protect the Colosseum: Selective Preservation and Reuse"
Mark Wigley, "Unleashing the Archive"
Paolo Amaldi, "Chairs, Posture, and Points of View: For an Exact Restitution of the Barcelona Pavilion"
Zeuler Lima, "Preservation as Confrontation: The Work of Lina Bo Bardi"
Vincent L. Michael, "Race against Renewal: Motives for Historic District Designation in Inner-City Chicago"
Jack Pyburn, "Historic Preservation in Architectural Education: Assessing the Past, Envisioning the Future"
Lucia Allais, "Ordering the Orders: Claude Perrault's Ordonnance and the Eastern Colonnade of the Louvre"
Randolph Starn, "Book Review: Architectural Imitations: Reproductions and Pastiches in East and West"
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Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Echoing: How to Situate the New"
Jessica Williams, "Reaching a Global Public: Language, Technology and the Practice of Interpretation"
Sheila Crane, "Mutable Fragments: Destructive Preservation and the Postwar Rebuilding of Marseille"
S. M. Can Bilsel, "The Undoing of a Monument: Preservation as Critical Engagement with Pergamon's Heritage"
Talinn Grigor, "Preserving the Antique Modern: Persepolis '71"
Robert Rubin, "Preserving and Presenting Prefab: Jean Prouve's Tropical House"
Adam Fish, "Native American Sacred Places and the Language of Capitalism"
Nina Rappaport and Ken Smith, "Modern Landscape Architecture, a Forgotten Art: The Case of Lincoln Center"
Paul Spencer Byard and Leslie Klein, "23 de Enero: Modern Public Housing in Post-Modern Caracas"
Alessandro Angelini, "Book Review: Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture Urbanism Identity"
Marisa Oliver, "Exhibition Review: Architecture and Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1969"
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Jorge Otero-Pailos "Editorial: The Contemporary Stamp of Incompleteness"
Robert Garland Thomson "Introduction: Preservation in Search of the Historic: New Methods, Expanding Boundaries"
Rem Koolhaas "Preservation is Overtaking Us"
Laura Weiss Bricker "History in Motion: A Glance at Historic Preservation in California"
Antoinette J. Lee "From Historic Architecture to Cultural Heritage: A Journey Through Diversity, Identity and Community"
Rahul Mehrotra "Constructing Cultural Significance: Looking at Bombay's Historic Fort Area"
Robert Allen Nauman "Preserving a Monument: The United States Air Force Academy"
Paul Bentel "Perspective: Where Do We Draw the Line? Historic Preservation's Expanding Boundaries"
William Richards "Razing the Exeter Dining Hall: Pros and Kahns"
Leslie Klein "Philip Johnson's Glass House: Framing Interpretation"
Ijlal Muzaffar "Book Review: Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963-1988"
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Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Editorial: Now is the Future Anterior for Advancing Historic Preservation Scholarship"
Robert Garland Thomson, "Introduction: Taking Steps Towards a New Dialogue: An Argument for an Enhanced Critical Discourse in Historic Preservation"
Melissa E. Baldock, "Preserving the Honky-Tonk: Coney Island's Future In Its Amusement Past
Michael Caratza, "Past Meets Futurism Along the Cross-Bronx: Preserving a Significant Urban Expressway"
Courtney Fint, "Jackson's Mill State 4-H Camp: The Rural Summer Camp as a Cultural Landscape"
Shawna Richardson-Upp, "Industrial Evolution: Preservation Through Judicious Demolition of 20th Century Industrial Buildings"
Jon Calame and Kirstin Sechler, "Perspective: Is Preservation Missing the Point? Cultural Heritage in the Service of Social Development"
Anton Vidokle, "The Future Anterior Interview"
Thordis Arrhenius, "The Cult of Age in Mass-Society: Alois Riegl's Theory of Conservation"
Jennifer Kearney, "Cast Stone's Trials of Authenticity: How Labor and Modernism Conspired to Kill a Nascent Materials Industry"
Carol Clark, "Book Review: Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States"